Bill Text: NY S07142 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school districts to establish a medical hardship waiver policy to grant or deny permission to certain students to use established pick-up and drop-off points on established bus routes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-31 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S07142 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07142-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7142
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 31, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  school
          districts  to  establish  a medical hardship waiver policy to grant or
          deny permission to certain students to  use  established  pick-up  and
          drop-off points on established bus routes
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  3635  of  the  education  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as follows:
     3    h.  (i) The board of education or trustees of each school district and
     4  the city school district of New York shall develop  a  medical  hardship
     5  waiver  policy  to grant or deny permission to children attending grades
     6  kindergarten through eight who live within two  miles  from  the  school
     7  which they legally attend and for children attending grades nine through
     8  twelve  who  live  within three miles from the school which they legally
     9  attend to use already established  pick-up  and/or  drop-off  points  on
    10  already established bus routes.
    11    (ii)  The  medical  hardship  waiver  policy  established  pursuant to
    12  subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall include:
    13    (1) a formal request procedure for a parent or guardian to  request  a
    14  medical  hardship waiver based upon a serious medical condition suffered
    15  by the child, parent or guardian and the resulting  hardship  in  trans-
    16  porting the child to and/or from school;
    17    (2)  a  requirement for submission of medical documentation, certified
    18  by a physician or other duly authorized health care provider, of a diag-
    19  nosis of a serious medical condition with a description of  the  limita-
    20  tions  resulting  from  such diagnosis and the approximate duration that
    21  such limitations will be suffered by the child, parent or guardian;
    22    (3) a requirement for submission of documentation of the nature of the
    23  hardship including the inability of the child to safely travel to and/or
    24  from school without the requested medical  hardship  waiver  or  of  the
    25  inability  of  the  parent  or guardian to safely transport the child to
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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